Sora

Product updates

Changelog

What changed in each Sora release: new features, improvements, and fixes.

Latest01

Manage Spaces from a right-click anywhere in the empty sidebar, with a cleaner footer and distraction-free switching.
Prevent terminal panes from flashing white while switching Spaces.

Let coding agents coordinate Space-scoped pinned tabs and panes through Sora’s CLI, with readable direct prompts and trusted Pi, OpenCode, and Grok lifecycle reporting.
Pin and unpin tabs reliably by dragging them between sidebar sections, even when a section is empty.

See working, blocked, completed, idle, and unknown coding-agent states across Spaces, and jump directly to agents from Search.
Switch rapidly between busy Spaces without terminal stalls, stale tab selection, or runaway background work.

Organize work in Spaces with vertical pinned and temporary tabs, attached repositories, custom icons, and trackpad switching.
Rename tabs directly from the left sidebar.
Collapse every expanded folder in the file viewer with one click.
The `sora` CLI and MCP server now manage Spaces directly, including creating, selecting, renaming, removing, and opening terminals within them.

Command-click terminal links to reveal local files in Finder, or open files and websites directly in new Sora tabs and panes.
Terminal notifications now sound reliably, work from Alacritty sessions, and return you to the session that sent them when clicked.
Alacritty terminals now handle modified keys, Shift-Enter multiline prompts, application keypads, and app-controlled pointer shapes correctly.
Switch directly to tabs with Ctrl+1–9, without also holding Shift.
New sessions start in the project's pinned directory, and browser tabs work with sites that require a modern Safari identity.
Prevent rare Ctrl-Tab crashes and runaway Git metadata checks outside repositories.

Files, Git, and Beads now follow coding agents into separate checkouts, clearly label worktrees, and show Git change badges beside files and folders.
Ctrl-Tab now switches by recent use, selected grouped tabs stay visible as the window changes, and command-palette keyboard and pointer selection stay predictable.
Grok sessions now join Sora's Agents tab group, and the typography preview reflects the Thicker text setting.

Sidebar headers now align with macOS window controls.
Command-running terminals now stay in the Terminals tab group instead of splitting into a separate Commands group.
Terminals no longer inject the legacy Kero CLI token; use the bundled `sora` helper for local automation.
Settings now use a custom macOS surface with a fixed sidebar, compact pane headers, and aligned setting cards.

Settings now use a cleaner sidebar layout with grouped macOS panes
Tab group headers now offer bulk close actions, including closing all files and inactive terminals, without the extra selected-group checkmark
Prevent terminal tabs from crashing after switching sessions or resizing during a partial redraw
Files created in a terminal now use your system's default permissions instead of being made private to your user
Terminal sessions now inherit your shell locale instead of Sora setting `LANG`
CJK monospace fonts now appear in the terminal font picker
Open native browser tabs and split panes from the command palette or terminal/editor context menus, with a combined address/search field, navigation controls, page sharing, and restored URLs

The left sidebar toggle remains available in the title bar after hiding the sidebar

File previews now refresh after files are changed outside Sora
Option-key characters from macOS input sources such as Polish Pro now work in terminals; users who prefer terminal Meta bindings can opt in under Settings → Terminal

Fix Chinese IME under the Alacritty backend
Reduce hidden Ghostty tab renderer memory
Opening the Ctrl-Tab switcher no longer highlights whichever tab happens under the stationary pointer
Sessions you never open no longer cost any GPU memory. Reopening a window used to draw restored sessions straight away, holding full-size buffers you looked at or not; now a pane claims one only when you first view it.

Add project-scoped Beads panel for reviewing, filtering, claiming, closing, reopening, and handing agent tasks back to the terminal
The Git panel now refreshes after commands and when Sora regains focus instead of polling continuously in the background

Group tabs into calm, connected Agents, Files, Commands, and Terminals sections that collapse without disrupting tab navigation or reordering
Enable the bundled `sora` CLI MCP server by default; local automation can still be switched off in Settings
Refresh Sora website local automation details and deploy it through the maintainer-owned Cloudflare Worker
Tweak some UI colors

Add opt-in local automation through the bundled `sora` CLI and MCP server for opening projects and controlling visible terminal tabs — without opening a network port
Choose which terminal emulator drives new panes in Settings → Terminal → Backend. Ghostty remains the default, with a new Alacritty backend
Configure the left and right sidebar font size in Settings

Processes list no longer shows `<defunct>` entries: those are exited children waiting to be reaped, not something you can see output from or kill
Opening a large diff no longer freezes the window: diffs render only the rows on screen and highlight them off the main thread
The font setting now applies to the diff viewer too, so diffs match the terminal and editor

…plus 22 earlier releases not shown here.